# Feature Framework Engineer

**Company**: Unknown
**Location**: New York, New York, United States of America
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $175,000 to $250,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137915550

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## Description

The Systematic Platform Execution & Exchange Data (SPEED) Team is at the core of Millennium's Equities, Quant Strategies, and Shared Services Technology organisation.

We are looking for a C++ engineer to design and build high-performance, low-latency applications that process large volumes of real-time data.

Principal Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain high-performance C++ services handling high message rates and low-latency workloads.

- Optimise existing components for latency, throughput, and CPU/memory efficiency.

- Develop and tune networking, messaging, and I/O layers to handle large data volumes reliably.

- Profile and debug performance issues at application, OS, and network levels.

- Collaborate with quantitative, trading, and infrastructure teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

- Write clean, production-quality code with appropriate tests and documentation.

- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.

Required Qualifications:

- Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/20 or later).

- 5+ years of experience.

- Analytics Focus: KDB / Q Experience for large market data, modern data analysis with pytorch, pandas and modern tooling including Apache arrow.

- Familiar with basics statistics as applied to financial research.

- Proven experience building performance-critical, real-time, or low-latency systems.

- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, memory management, and optimisation.

- Experience using profiling, benchmarking, and performance analysis tools.

- Proficiency with version control (Git) and standard build systems.

- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

- Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to navigate large organisations.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with kernel bypass or user-space networking technologies.

- Familiarity with AI productivity enhancing coding tools.

- Experience in financial markets, market data distribution, order routing, or exchange connectivity.

- Experience with monitoring/telemetry for high-performance systems.

- Familiarity with scripting languages for tooling and automation.

- AI: Familiarity with AI productivity enhancing coding tools.

Personal Attributes:

- Obsessed with performance, measurement, and data-driven optimisation.

- Comfortable owning features end-to-end and operating in a production environment.

- Clear communicator who can work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Proactive, self-directed, and able to thrive in a highly iterative environment.

The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000, which is specific to New York and may change in the future.

## Skills

### Required
- modern C++
- KDB / Q
- pytorch
- pandas
- Apache arrow
- data structures
- algorithms
- memory management
- optimisation
- profiling
- benchmarking
- performance analysis tools
- version control
- standard build systems

### Nice to have
- kernel bypass
- user-space networking technologies
- AI productivity enhancing coding tools
- financial markets
- market data distribution
- order routing
- exchange connectivity
- monitoring/telemetry
- scripting languages